There are other Icon painting
Courses which are listed in The Iconographers Review which is mailed to all members
of the Association or can be purchased
here...

FLORES DEL CAMINO,

SPAIN

VIRGIN AND CHILD

MARCH 25TH - APRIL 2ND, 2018

Suitable for complete beginners. This is your opportunity to learn the icon painting egg tempera technique(natural pigments mixed with egg yolk) in beautiful surroundings in the north of Spain on the pilgrimage route to Santiago. The location is Castrillo de los Polvazares, a traditional Maragato vilage, voted the most beautiful village in Spain in 2017. It takes place at Flores Del Camino, a beautiful container lovingly refurbished to receive pilgrims and all guests.

During this retreat you will have the choice to either paint a paint a Black Madonna, Our Lady of Czestochowa, a revered icon at a pilgrimage site in Poland or the beautiful Byzantine icon of the Virgin of Vladimir. You will be guided by Hanna Ward ’ s expert hand, a well known Finnish/British Iconographer that teaches regular classes in U K at the P rince ’s School of Traditional Arts, London and in her studio in Caterham , Surrey and Hanna does regular courses also in Finland and Bethlehem.

During the retreat you will have the opportunity to visit special local places, such as the beautiful secluded chapel of Santa Marina and experience the magical landscape. We will also look at the geometry of Camino cathedrals and churches. This retreat will also be your opportunity to witness the impressive, renowned Spanish Easter processions.

On this course you can learn various traditional gilding techniques used in medieval manuscripts, practice painting on vellum with natural self made pigments, and finish a lovely Lord’s Prayer either in Finnish or English, ready to be framed and given as a gift.

Hanna-Leena teaches regular icon painting classes in Caterham, Surrey and teaches week long courses every term at the Prince’s School of Traditional Arts in London.

The next course there is 4-8 September and another one in the beginning of December. Please contact The Prince’s School of Traditional Arts for these courses.

I have not offered this custom made tour in several years, but I have now prepared it for next July.

As the trip is rather long and pricey, I divided it into two equal parts. That way, those who are not able to participate in the entire trip, could attend first part: St. Petersburg, Novgorod, Pskov and Moscow or second part: Moscow, Rostov, Yarolavl, Vologda, Vladimir, Suzdal.

My trip presents a very rare opportunity for people to visit the best of Russian Icon collections - both state funded and private, to meet Russian iconographers, and to visit great number of historical monuments with frescoes, some of which are off limits to general public.

Located
on the very edge of Kampinos forest. In between Warsaw and Poznan. Not far away
from Frederic Chopin's birth place Zelazowa Wola.http://otulina.com

A
week away from everything. Spent in a peaceful and creative atmosphere.A time
to help you look into a silence that is in all of us. To help you built confidence
and learn who you are through creativity and personal development tools.Icon
painting will take a time in between breakfast and lunch. Students will work on
icons that speak to them and through this work explore the technique of ancient
egg tempera. Making paints from natural ingredients will help us connect to material
we work with but also look into ourselves and understand creative processes.Led
by - Basia MindewiczFounder of Edinburgh School of Icon Painting. She is an
experienced icon painter and tutor. She has been teaching egg tempera for over
7 years in Poland and Scotland. She curated few exhibition in Edinburgh.''I
would love for art to be accessible to everyone. My mission is to help people
find and built a confidence to create. To open world of art to all. I believe
spirituality could be open to everyone and icon painting seems to be a perfect
way. Icon is becoming more and more popular in modern world because people need
something non materialistic in their lives. I would like to inspire this inner
movement. Help explore what is not physical.''

After
lunch participants will explore mindfulness and more. ''I would like to offer
opportunity to explore your inner worlds, emotions, needs, body experiences and
to explore social world of relationships, connections, closeness, care and trust.We
will be using a broad range of methods and tools, beginning with artistic and
physical expression, through mindfulness and inspiration from neuropsychology,
NVC (nonviolent communication) and attachment theory applied to adult relationships.
Together we will take a look at many important questions such as: what is that
helps us become more alive and present, what is our drive, our spark of energy
in life, how we understand spirituality and our connections to the world.'' AgnieszkaLed
by Agnieszka Stein - who has been working as a psychologist for last 15 years.
In her work she helps people develop personal relationships. Agnieszka is an author
of two books about building relationships with children and personal development
through parenting. She has led many empathic communication workshops. Using many
psychological tools she is inspired by attachment theory, NVC, neuropsychology
and ecology.

Cost £400And it includes:Icon
workshopAgnieszka's workshopFull board accommodation.Flights not included.
You can either fly to Warsaw or to Warsaw Modlin.

Non
refundable deposit of £100 is required with booking.

Contact
Edinburgh School of Icon Painting, see website at www.edinburghiconpainting.net

Icon
painting course in Finland 13th - 18th July 2015

A
lovely retreat in a large country house by the lake in the Finnish Lake District.
Easy access from Helsinki airport and also to the New Valamo Monastery.This
course is suitable for beginners and intermediate painters who want to expand
their knowledge and understanding about Byzantine icons and the traditional technique
with egg tempera painting.Classes will be taught by Hanna Ward, she has a
diploma in icon and wall painting and MA in Traditional Arts from the Prince's
School of Traditional Arts where she also now teaches icon painting classes.The
cost of the six day course and full board is £460.For more information
please contact Hanna on hannalward@hotmail.com or 07518 341288

The
Bethlehem Icon School

At the Emmanuel Greek
Catholic Monastery of Benedictine Sisters in Bethlehem in the Holy Land itself,
a contemplative full seven days of immersion into the world of the icon, in the
place where God first showed us His Living Icon, the Face of Our Saviour.

Accommodation
is en-suite, single rooms overlooking the Judean desert and numbers are kept to
no more than about 15.Price: Just £325, including accommodation, ALL
meals, some materials and tuition.

This is
a FULL week course which concludes with a solemn blessing of icons in the monastery
church by Archbishop Zerey of Jerusalem (or his deputy).

April
9-16 2015Focus: the Face of the Saviour which can reasonably be expected to
be completed during the course.A simple icon of the Face of Christ, from making
the board, sacred geometry, drawing, gilding, and all elements of egg tempera
painting. October 8-15 2015A course tackling a more advanced subject,
with more time focusing on drawing and gilding (to be decided). Includes design,
egg tempera painting and water gilding. Please bring your own prepared board (or
purchase from the Centre before arrival).Also... SEPTEMBER 7-21 2015. We are
hoping to offer a TWO WEEK course in September in the new Icon Centre complex
with its purposely refurbished facilities (not the Emmanuel Monastery), which
will be less intense, with the weekend free to explore but giving time for some
serious iconography work alongside some of our local students. This is being organised
in conjunction with the Rowington Group. Please contact Rev Susan Mobberly for
details (sumob@tiscali.co.uk). Cost: £750, incl. of meals, accommodation
and tuition. Site-seeing etc at your own cost!

The main goal of
the course is to help the students to acquire, develop and improve good practical
icon-painting skills. During this training under the guidance of a tutor each
student is supposed to create one icon (19.5 x 25 cm). There will also be a great
opportunity for every student to observe the process of creating an icon by a
skilled icon-painter.

We hope that both beginners and experts will find
this course useful.

Schedule:

Day 1 (practice). Creating the icons
by the tutors icon-painters while the students are drawing their sketches on boards
at the same time.

Day 2 (practice). Students complete their drawings, cover
it with shellac and varnish PF.

Day 3 (theory). The tutor icon-painter is
creating the second sample icon in front of the audience; students have
the opportunity to observe each stage of work.

Day 4 (theory). As this day
is Sunday, the classes will start in the afternoon. Finishing the painting of
the sample icon.

Day 5 (practice). Mordan plated, cover with
quick lacquer.

Day 6 (practice). Roskrysh, sankir.

Day 7 (practice).
Disclosure of the face.

Day 8 (practice). Drawing of the details: the hair,
the beard.

Day 9 (practice). Generalization of the image.

Day 10
(practice). Finishing the piece of work. Linseed oil.

The course will take
place from 15th till 24th August 2013 in StPetersburg (Russia).

Participation
fee: 560 Euros (all materials included)  until 1 July

650 Euros 
after 1 July

Accommodations and meals are not included, although accommodations
can be arranged at extra fee (please inform us in beforehand).

Feedback

Should
you need more details, please, contact Mrs. Elena Petelina via

mobile phone
+7 911 965 24 62 or email: office@vesta-k.ru

Icon painting courses
in Bulgaria

Courses in iconography with Marchela Dimitrova

We
(my husband Fr.Nedyalko and I) are planning to start one week icon-painting courses
and workshops for small groups of students (for 1, 2 or maximum 3 people and both
beginners and advanced students are welcome) based on my studio (linked with a
house) which is located in the town of Perushitca at the foot of Rhodope Mountains
and 12 miles off Plovdiv, and also on our house in the centre of Plovdiv a beautiful
ancient town in the middle of Bulgaria. We already have some experience leading
courses at Alde Valley Spring Festival in Great Glemham, Saxmunfham, Suffolk -
www.aldevalleyspringfestival.co.uk Ryanair flights are available 3 times a week
from London Stansted to Plovdiv Airport We will welcome the students on the Plovdiv
Airport and will accommodate them in our house-studio in Perushtitsa (30 min.
drive from Plovdiv Airport) We will provide them full board for the time of the
course (one week) and minimum 30 hours intensive tuition of icon painting (most
of the students are able to complete one icon and to take it with them) and all
the materials for icon painting (boards primed with cloth & gesso, sets of pigments,
gold leaf, etc.) We also include two one-day journeys: The first one is to visit
the Icon Gallery in Plovdiv and some painted churches in the town and the second
one is for exploration the frescoed churches of Asenovgrad and Bachkovo Monastery
Also there is opportunity to join the celebration of the Divine Liturgy (Orthodox)
in church of Holy Trinity in Plovdiv and walks for visiting the local churches
and chapels in Perushtica The fee will be £500 (which is all inclusive but excluding
the air tickets) and deposit of 20% (or £100) required. The time of the courses
is flexible and because it is for very small groups and it could be even for one
student, this can be fixed in discussion (we have published the times in which
the courses are available for booking) For more details visit www.iconpaintingcourses.wix.com/workshops
" Please also see my web site www.marcheladimitrova.wix.com/byzantineiconsPlease feel free to ask me any questions

BETHLEHEM ICON SCHOOL,
BETHLEHEM HOLY LAND

Courses in iconography with Ian Knowles, 11-18 April
2013

These are seven-day intensive courses in iconography, covering all
aspects of the process from drawing (not tracing) though gilding to painting in
egg tempera. An excellent opportunity for those new to iconography, though the
autumn course is aimed at those with some experience. Hospitality, included in
the price, is at the Emmanuel Monastery, a community of Greek Catholic Benedictine
nuns, on the outskirts of Bethlehem with views over the Judaean desert. A deeply
contemplative environment, it makes these courses as much a spiritual retreat
as a painting week. It is hard work, but that is driven by the students themselves,
who really enter into the living world of the icon close to the place where the
Father gave us His Image in the Face of the Christ Child.

The cost is
£325, including all meals and accommodation for seven or eight nights.

PROSOPON WORKSHOP,
LESVOS GREECE with ELENA ANTONOVA. The third Prosopon workshop in Vatoussa, a
traditional mountain village on the Aegean Island of Lesvos. Simple accommodation,
lunches, pickup from port , some excursions and a welcome dinner will also be
offered.